About the Authors

Zhiwei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiwei Liu, Guoling Ren

Affiliation The Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Guoling Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiwei Liu, Guoling Ren

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Daqing Normal University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China

Chenyan Shangguan

Affiliation The Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Lijing Guo

Affiliation The Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Zhixiong Dong

Affiliation The College of Life Science, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China

Yueyang Li

Affiliation The Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Weina Zhang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Li Zhao

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Pingfu Hou

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Yu Zhang

Affiliation The Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Xiuli Wang

Affiliation The Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Jun Lu

huangbq705@nenu.edu.cn (BQH); ycsuo@nenu.edu.cn (JL)

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Baiqu Huang

huangbq705@nenu.edu.cn (BQH); ycsuo@nenu.edu.cn (JL)

Affiliation The Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZWL GLR JL BQH. Performed the experiments: ZWL GLR CYSG LJG WNZ. Analyzed the data: ZWL GLR ZXD YYL YZ XLW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZWL GLR LZ PFH. Wrote the paper: ZWL BQH. Designed the software used in analysis: ZWL Obtained permission for use of cell line: ZWL GLR JL BQH.